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Functionalism, Exchange and Theoretical Strategy (RLE Social Theory)

Author : Michael Mulkay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317651839
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Functionalism, Exchange and Theoretical Strategy (RLE Social Theory) written by Michael Mulkay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M.J. Mulkay traces the development of certain recent versions of functionalism and exchange theory in sociology, with special attention to 'theoretical strategy'. He uses this term to refer to the policies which theorists adopt to ensure that their work contributes to their long range theoretical objectives. Such strategies are important, he believes, because they place limits on the theories with which they are associated. He shows how each of the theorists he studies devised a new strategy to replace the unsuccessful policies of a prior theory in a process of 'strategical dialectic'. This often has unforeseen consequences for the direction of theoretical growth, and the author interprets changes in theoretical perspective largely as products of these strategical innovations.

Functionalism, Exchange and Theoretical Strategy (RLE Social Theory)

Author : Michael Mulkay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317651847
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Functionalism, Exchange and Theoretical Strategy (RLE Social Theory) written by Michael Mulkay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M.J. Mulkay traces the development of certain recent versions of functionalism and exchange theory in sociology, with special attention to 'theoretical strategy'. He uses this term to refer to the policies which theorists adopt to ensure that their work contributes to their long range theoretical objectives. Such strategies are important, he believes, because they place limits on the theories with which they are associated. He shows how each of the theorists he studies devised a new strategy to replace the unsuccessful policies of a prior theory in a process of 'strategical dialectic'. This often has unforeseen consequences for the direction of theoretical growth, and the author interprets changes in theoretical perspective largely as products of these strategical innovations.

Functionalism, Exchange and Theoretical Strategy

Author : Michael Mulkay
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780751201031
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Functionalism, Exchange and Theoretical Strategy written by Michael Mulkay and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the development of functionalism and exchange theory in sociology by looking closely at the work of five major theorists in chronological order. Particular attention is given to variations in theoretical strategy and to the way in which each theorist was led to devise a new strategy in response to the demonstrably unsatisfactory strategies of his predecessors. Intellectural change during this phase of sociological theory is seen to have been neither continuous nor cumulative but to have been characterized by radical alterations in direction as theorists tried unsuccessfully to find the procedures which would generate a truly scientific theory of society. The reasons for this disappointing pattern of uncertain theoretical development are studied in depth.

Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317808819
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) by : Jeffrey C. Alexander

Download or read book Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume begins by challenging the bases of the recent scientization of sociology. Then it challenges some of the ambitious claims of recent theoretical debate. The author not only reinterprets the most important classical and modern sociological theories but extracts from the debates the elements of a more satisfactory, inclusive approach to these general theoretical points.

Talcott Parsons and the Social Image of Man (RLE Social Theory)

Author : Ken Menzies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317650549
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis Talcott Parsons and the Social Image of Man (RLE Social Theory) by : Ken Menzies

Download or read book Talcott Parsons and the Social Image of Man (RLE Social Theory) written by Ken Menzies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Talcott Parsons’s work clarifies his basic concepts and sets out their correlation. Dr Menzies believes that the philosophy of science working within the confines of the analytic-synthetic distinction tends to provide a rigid, static and sterile account of theories. He presents a more dynamic account of the scientific enterprise in order to come to grips with the amorphous nature of theory, and to provide the basic framework for his analysis of Parsons. Menzies argues that Parsons’s central problematic in The Structure of Social Action is utilitarianism in general and the classical economists’ account of the rise of capitalism in particular, and as such the book is not a reconciliation of positivistic and idealistic elements and these run throughout his subsequent work. Two major strands in Parsons’s work – the social action theory and the systems theory (structural-functionalism) – are separated and examined individually.

Analyzing Pol Change/h

Author : James R Scarritt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429726759
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Analyzing Pol Change/h written by James R Scarritt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses political instability and the role of the military in unstable politics, as well as to class formation, class conflict, and prolonged economic dependency in Africa. It uses a comprehensive theoretical approach based on systems-functionalist theories in solving these issues.

Theoretical Logic in Sociology

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317807057
Total Pages : 1669 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Logic in Sociology written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 1669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four volume work, originally published in the 1980s and out of print for some years, represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. Jeffrey Alexander analyses the most general and fundamental elements of sociological thinking about action and order and their ramifications for empirical study. He insists that sociological thought need not choose between voluntary action and social constraint. The four volumes can be read independently of one another as each presents a distinctive theoretical argument in its own right. The first volume is directed at contemporary problems and controversies, not only in ‘theory’ but in the philosophy and sociology of science. The last three volumes make interpretations, confronting the individual theorists, and the secondary literature, on their own terms.

The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317808665
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters of Marx have placed alienation and subjectivity at the centre of his work, Professor Alexander suggests that it was the later Marx’s very emphasis on alienation that allowed him to avoid conceptualizing subjectivity altogether. In Durkheim’s case, by contrast, the author argues that such objectivist theorizing informed the early work alone, and he demonstrates that in his later writings Durkheim elaborated an idealist theory that used religious life as an analytical model for studying the institutions of secular society.

Social Order and the General Theory of Strategy

Author : Alexander Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000259315
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Social Order and the General Theory of Strategy written by Alexander Atkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a place left in international politics for the real use of violence as an instrument of policy in the nuclear age? Originally published in 1981, Dr Atkinson attempts to answer this question with new considerations in the presentation of a general theory of strategy. He argues that the classical theory of strategy, so influential for the 19th century and for the better half of the 20th century, was built on a mainly hidden structure of reasoning that still infests theory today. The larger and socially-rooted lessons that insurgent warfare can inform, as best exemplified in the primary sources of the Chinese Civil War period, reveal in a new light this hidden structure of which Clausewitz is the earliest and most eloquent example. By this analysis of the insurgent and classical paradigm opposites the author intends to strip away the blinds of convention still circulating in theory today so that observers and students of international politics may see where new forms of politically motivated violence in the nuclear age seem more than ever to be headed. Here we have perfect paradigm opposites. In the conventional world battle-field action and ideally 'decisive battle' is the center of all other issues in which such conventional logic in the end sweeps up everything else and runs it back through the logic into success or failure of armed power on the battle-field. Everything hangs on this. In the 'revisionist' insurgent world where social order is weaponized as an object and source of military power through its inherent and valuable (armed) power structures social order replaces narrow battle-field action (ideally focused on 'decisive battle') and alternatively redirects the entire logic and all other considerations, including previously heroic conventional military assets, are remodeled to act against (armed) enemy power structures inherent (as always) in social order for the ultimate object of military victory. Again, everything is on this alone. Which paradigm - one the opposite mirror image of the other - will prevail will depend on the stability and power of the nation state and its institutions, the continued and unhappy collapse on which I base the General Theory.

Critical Readings on Piaget

Author : Leslie Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113478614X
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Critical Readings on Piaget written by Leslie Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Talcott Parsons

Author : Peter Hamilton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415037624
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Talcott Parsons written by Peter Hamilton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talcott Parsons (1904-79) is widely regarded as one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century. These four volumes provide an essential guide to the thought and work of this major sociologist.

Political Theory and Power

Author : Sarah Joseph
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004669302
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Political Theory and Power written by Sarah Joseph and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Russell Keat
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136839240
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals) written by Russell Keat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of important sociological theorists and frameworks. This second edition of the work was originally published in 1982.

Political Theory and Power

Author : Sarah Joseph
Publisher : Foundation Books
ISBN 13 : 9788175962033
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Political Theory and Power written by Sarah Joseph and published by Foundation Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws attention to certain significant changes in the way in which power has been defined and it also examines some of the critical responses which those changes have evoked. The objective is not to try and evolve a universally acceptable and comprehensive definition of power, and of realted terms like authority and influence. The argument of the book is that, that would be an impossible project since social and political theories themselves constitute an intervention into political discourse of a society and they may implicitly or explicitly embody a political perspective.

Sociological Theory in Use (RLE Social Theory)

Author : Kenneth Menzies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317657187
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Sociological Theory in Use (RLE Social Theory) written by Kenneth Menzies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to most sociologists’ self-image is the claim that their theories are based on research. However, using a random sample of 680 articles appearing in major American, British and Canadian journals, Dr Menzies shows that in some areas of sociology the wide gap between theory and research means that much of sociological theory is virtually untested. He explains how theory is embodied in eight particular types of research, critically examines these research theories, and contrasts them with the positions of modern theorists. The sample of journal articles also permits a comparison of British, American and Canadian sociology. By contrasting on how researchers us theories, Dr Menzies is able to reassess several theories. For instance, symbolic interactionist research uses embedded causal claims and stands in a dialectical relationship to other sociological research, while the research version of conflict theory depends on external causes to explain social change. The implications of using statistical techniques like factor analysis and regression are also considered in relation to the form of explanation.

Robert K. Merton and Contemporary Sociology

Author : Carlo Mongardini
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351291343
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Robert K. Merton and Contemporary Sociology written by Carlo Mongardini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers scholars of sociology and allied areas the fruits of an international conference on the contributions of the eminent Robert K. Merton. The assessment, as good in content as well as in participants, took place in Amalfi, Italy, with the participation of Merton himself and under the auspices of the Italian Sociology Association. Carlo Mongardini aptly summarizes the unique impact of Merton on the social theory of our century. "His strength as a classic writer lies in his balance, unveiling complexity, and in his humanism which looks beyond the apparent simplicity and coherence of social reality." A special treat is the final chapter by Merton reviewing "Unanticipated Conse-quences and Kindred Sociological Ideas." In it, he ranges from the historical an-tecedents of the concept to his own evolution in the use and expansion of the idea. Merton approaches the development of his thought as installments rather than sim-ple evolution, and in so doing gives us unique insight into how he built upon his originating notions in the context of social science as it existed in the United States. Tensions between integrating scholarship and reaching the general public provide a special insight into Merton that might prove new even to those who know his work well. Contributors to this original volume include: Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Paolo Ammassari, Gianni Statera, Birgitta Nedelmann, Harriet Zuckerman, Piotr Sztompka, Peter Gerlich, Charles Crothers, Elena Besozzi, and Arnold Zongerle, among others. The chapters address the full range of Merlon's work, with special emphasis on such areas as anomie, structural analysis, the relationship of theory to research, patterns of latent and manifest influence, and even the application of Mertonian concepts to the analysis of Merton as a scholar. This unusual compendium, translated from the Italian, will interest social researchers across the academic spectrum.

Toward a Structural Theory of Action

Author : Peter H. Rossi
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483288277
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Structural Theory of Action written by Peter H. Rossi and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward a Structural Theory of Action: Network Models of Social Structure, Perception, and Action centers on the concept of social structure, perceptions, and actions, as well as the strategies through which these concepts guide empirical research. This book also proposes a model of status/role-sets as patterns of relationships defining positions in the social topology. This text consists of nine chapters separated into three parts. Chapter 1 introduces the goals and organization of the book. Chapters 2-4 provide analytical synopsis of available network models of social differentiation, and then use these models in describing actual stratification. Chapter 5 presents a model in which actor interests are captured. Subsequent chapter assesses the empirical adequacy of the two predictions described in this book. Then, other chapters provide a network model of constraint and its empirical adequacy. This book will be valuable to anthropologists, economists, political scientists, and psychologists.